Gabriel von Max
Head of a Baboon
1870
pencil and wash on paper
23,8 x 18,6 cm
with extensive annotations by the artist, including, at the bottom of the drawing, the title and date:
"Cynocephalus Babuin (Africa) in München am 17 December 870 fem. juv [female juvenile]"
Provenance:
Estate (Nachlass) of the Artist
Galerie Konrad Bayer, Munich, from whom The Daulton Collection acquired the drawing
Exhibition History:
"The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives," Stanford University, California, Hohbach Hall, Green Library, January 9, 2024 - June 21, 2024
Publication History:
Jessica Riskin and Caroline Winterer, The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives (Stanford, California: Silicon Valley Archives/Stanford University Libraries, 2024), ill. at pg. 17.
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The head of the baboon in Gabriel von Max's oil painting "Abstinence," circa 1900, is directly based upon this drawing. See Aleš Filip and Roman Musil, eds., Gabriel von Max (1840-1915), (Plzni, Czech Republic: Arbor Vitae and Západoceská galerie v Plzni, 2011), ill. 256, pg. 195:
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Gabriel von Max Abstinence oil on canvas circa 1900-1915 unidentified German private collection
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In the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, there is a related drawing of this same baboon in profile, dated 1870. See Karin Althaus and Helmut Friedel, eds., Gabriel von Max, Malerstar, Darwinist, Spiritist (München: Hirmer Verlag, 2010), p. 301, ill. 290:
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In the Deutsches Kunstarchiv im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, there are albumin photographs, circa 1870, of a dead baboon that appears to be the same animal depicted in our drawing. See: Althaus and Friedel, ills. 296-297 and 299-300, pgs. 303-304.
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In addition, and most significantly, the same baboon depicted in our drawing appears to be the central and largest monkey depicted in Gabriel von Max's masterpiece, "Affen als Kunstrichter" ["Monkeys as Art Critics"] (1889), in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinokothek, Munich:
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Contact: The Daulton Collection thedaultoncollection@outlook.com
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